The first price in the category „Best Substitution of another Production Process” wins GF Automotive with a console for a truck cabin suspension at the Newcast Award 2015. The expert jury rewarded the iron sand casted component from GF Automotive, Singen (DE). The prize was rewarded on June 17th 2015 by Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, Bundesverband der Deutschen Gießerei-Industrie (BDG) and Verein Deutscher...

1. GIFA, METEC, THERMPROCESS, NEWCAST 2011 bigger than ever before at more than 77,000 m² Very popular trade fair portals Three months before they are held (28. June to 2. July 2011), it is becoming apparent that the four metal trade fairs GIFA , METEC , THERMPROCESS and NEWCAST will be setting a new exhibitor record. There has been a particularly large increase in the...

In October 2010, around 120 experts from all five continents came together for an International Steel Casting Conference (SCC) in Dresden Germany. Among the attendees and presenters were experts from major steel foundries such as voestalpine, Voith, and Schmolz & Bickenbach, as well as representatives of the Steel Founders’ Society of America (SFSA) and researchers from the University Iowa. ...

Article also available in The German foundry-industry substitutes its interests instantly in the new founded “Bundesverband der Deutschen Gießerei-Industrie” (BDG). In the BDG united the three industry alliances, Deutscher Gießereiverband e. V. (DGV), the Gesamtverband Deutscher Metallgießereien e. V. (GDM) and the Verein Deutscher Gießereifachleute e.V. (VDG). On the...